The AIED workshop for Exploring Opportunities to Standardize Adaptive Instructional Systems (AISs) is a half-day workshop conducted as part of the AI in Education 2018 conference to be held 27-30 June in London.  This goal of the proposed workshop is to explore opportunities to standardize components and/or processes within a class of technologies called adaptive instructional systems (AISs) which include Intelligent Tutoring Systems (ITSs) and other learning tools and methods used to guide/optimize instruction. AISs use human variability (e.g., performance, preferences, affect) and other learner/team attributes along with instructional conditions to develop/select appropriate learning strategies (domain-independent policies) and tactics (tutor actions).  Within AISs, the relationship of the learner(s) states/traits, environmental conditions (context within a learning experience), and AIS decisions is usually described by a machine learning algorithm which is used to select an action or set of actions to optimize one or more learning outcomes: knowledge acquisition, skill development, retention, performance, and transfer of skills between the instructional environment and the work or operational environment where the skills learned during instruction will be applied. 

Recently, the Learning Technologies Steering Committee (LTSC) under the auspices of the IEEE Computer Society formed a 6-month Standards Study Group to investigate the possible market need for standards across AISs. Several interactions with stakeholder communities point to broad interest in AIS standards.  Discussions to date indicate opportunities to influence their affordability, their interoperability and reuse, making them more appealing to the masses.  

Submission Guidelines

All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference. Paper submissions for this workshop should adhere to the following guidance:

• Abstracts are extended abstracts and should be 800-1000 words in length
• Papers shoulld be 6-10 pages in the LNCS format required by the AIED 2018 Conference

Submission Schedule

• Abstract Submission Deadline: 16 March 2018
• Abstract Acceptance Notification: 23 March 2018
• Paper Submission Deadline: 11 April 2018
• Paper Acceptance Notification: 18 April 2018
• Camera-Ready Paper Submission Deadline: 4 May 2018

List of Topics

Topics must cover some aspect of standards for adaptive instructional systems (AISs) which include Intelligent Tutoring Systems, but can vary from the topics below which are provided to guide authors:

• AI and Machine Learning for AISs
• AIS Design and Interaction
• Assessment Methods
• Authoring Tools
• Domain Modeling
• Individual Learner Modeling
• Instructional Management
• ITS Architecture and Ontology
• Team Modeling

Committees

Program Committee

• Robert Sottilare, Army Research Laboratory, Workshop Co-Chair
• Robby Robson, Eduworks Inc., Workshop Co-Chair
• Avron Barr, IEEE Learning Technologies Steering Committee, Workshop Committee Member
• Arthur Graesser, University of Memphis, Workshop Committee Member
• Xiangen Hu, University of Memphis, Workshop Committee Member

Publication

AIED_AIS1 proceedings will be published by the Program Committee per the AIED format at:  http://ceur-ws.org/

Venue

The conference will be held at the UCL Institute of Education in London, UK.

Contact

All questions about submissions should be emailed to robert.a.sottilare.civ@mail.mil.